Dmitry’s interest in the St. Petersburg-to-Moscow journey dated back to his school days, when read a book written in 1790 by Aleksandr Radishchev. He decided to recreate the journey when he reread the book two years ago, “in part to capture the vast differences between Russia’s cities and its hinterlands”.

I am fascinated by the back stories to the production of the interactive NYT stories. The Russia Left Behind story brings together: